Printer&#39;s furniture.



No. 863,973. PATENTED AUG. zo, 1907. s. H. EMANUEL.

PRINTBRS FURNITURE.

APPLIOATIN FILED APR. 19. 1906.

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SOLOMON H. EMANUEL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BERNARD MAKOVER, OF NEW YORK. N. Y.

PRINTER7 S FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON H. EMANUEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in printers furniture, and has special reference to the provision in apparatus for printing imitation typewritten matter, of means for securing the fabric which is interposed between the face of the type and the paper upon which the impression is to be made, in position, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and readilyoperated device by means of which the opposite edges of the fabric may be securely held and the fabric adjustably but at the same time positively, secured in proper position.

With the above object in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, -particularly pointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure l is a plan view of a printing chase and form of type with my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2, a perspective view of one of the improved holding devices removed from the chase; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same; Fig. 4, a sectional view taken through a portion of the chase, type and one of the holding devices, the latter being shown in transverse section, and Fig. 5, an end elevation of one of the holding devices with the end-plate removed.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, l designates a bar of wood or metal known as printers furniture and employed in securing the form of type in the chase. In carrying out my invention, l form this bar hollow or with a recess of suicient size to receive a longitudinally-extending shaft 2 journaled at its ends in the end-walls of the bar. The top-wall of this bar is formed with a longitudinally-extending slot 3 extending nearly from end to end thereof, and the shaft is provided with a slot 4 of the same length and extending entirely therethrough.

The shaft carries at one end, a toothed wheel 5 which projects through a transversely-extending slot in the top wall of the bar, and by means of which said shaft may be rotated by the finger. Mounted on said shaft adjacent to the wheel 5 is a ratchet-wheel G, the teeth of which are normally engaged by a springpressed pawl 7 pivoted in a slot in the top-wall of the bar, and having a finger-engaging portion 8 projecting i therefrom by means of which it may be operated to disengage the teeth ofthe ratchet-wheel. The shaft is held from rotation in one direction by this pawl and ratchet-wheel until the pawl is disengaged therefrom. The end-wall 9 is detachably secured to the bar as illustrated.

In operation, the bars as just described are used in securing the form of type l0 in the chase ll in place of the ordinary solid bars or printers furniture, one bar being placed at each end of the type. The ends of the silk or other inked fabric l2 are then inserted through the slots of the top-walls of the bars and the slots of the shafts, by means of a card or other 'Convenient object. The shafts are then rotated and the fabric drawn taut. The pawls and ratchet-wheels prevent the rotation of the shafts to unwind the fabric, so that the latter is held securely. Either or both ends of the fabric may be quickly Areleased by lifting the pawl or pawls out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel or wheels. Should it be desired to shift the fabric for any reason, as for instance should it become torn, one shaft may be released, and the other rotated to wind the fabric thereon.

The shaft 2 is rotatable in either direction, but its rotation in one direction is prevented so long as the pawl 7 is in engagement with the ratchet-wheel G. By disengaging the pawl7 by means of its finger-engaging portion 5, from said ratchet, the shaft may be firmly rotated in either direction.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I .clainnas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent oftheUnited-l States, is;-

1` An article of`printer's furniture comprising a hollow bar having a longitudinally-extending slot in its top-wall, a shaft mounted in said bar having a longitudinallyextending slot formed therein and extending therethrough, a ratchet-wheel carried by said shaft, a spring-pressed pawl carried by the bar and normally engaging said -ratchet-wheel, and atoothed Wheel carried by the shaft and projecting from the bar.

2. An article of printers furniture comprising` a recessed bar, a shaft within said recess arranged to receive the end of a fabric, means for effecting the rotation of said shaft, and means for holding it in its adjustment.

3. An article of printer-s furniture comprising a recessed bar, a shaft within said recess arranged to receive the end of a fabric and rotatable in either direction, means for effecting the rotation of said shaft, and means for holding said shaft in its adjustment and normally preventingits rotation in one direction.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses. i,

soLoMoN E'. EMANUEL.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL J. FISHER, FREDERICK C. JACOBS. 

